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by zyxley 10y ago
If someone has already directed law enforcement to their lawyer, attempting to talk to them in person without their lawyer present is overwhelmingly likely to simply result in being referred to that lawyer again. The result is wasted time a
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They already refused to talk to her lawyer. There is every reason to assume that any subject they would bring up in person is one that could easily affect her negatively, as they would have zero reason not to share any benign subject (&quot
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> "But... if we happen to run into her on the street, we’re gonna be asking her some questions without you present." That sure sounds like intended harassment to me.
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If they already know they will get nowhere with it, then there is no purpose to it but harassment.
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> Worst case I can think of is the FBI asks a question with at least one potential answer that would incriminate her, she feels uncomfortable answering for whatever reason, and the FBI then interprets her ending the call there as suspici
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There is no good reason for the FBI to pay you a visit and then refuse to tell your lawyer why they want to talk to you.
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by zyxley 10y ago
> "But... if we happen to run into her on the street, we’re gonna be asking her some questions without you present." That sure sounds like intended harassment to me.
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> but I don't understand why she refused to talk to them at all Talking to law enforcement is the job of your lawyer. If law enforcement refuses to talk to your lawyer, is it really that far-fetched to think they may want to do othe
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I'm reminded of Hemingway, who was in the last years of his life accused of delusional paranoia, and in part because of that forcibly committed, given shock treatments, and repeatedly attempted suicide (and, sadly, eventually succeeded
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What do you think a job is, in this analogy?
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Are you really trying to claim that literally every homeless person is a drug-abusing criminal?
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If you apply that "mouse utopia" to humans, what you get isn't a "utopia"... it's a refugee camp or low-security prison, where food and shelter is available but nobody can leave and there's nothing to do b
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> Umm yeah, that's exactly what they gave to the mice. Yes, without any opportunity to get involved in anything more than that. "Here, live in this box forever, you get all the food pellets and water you want, but you can never
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> How am I going to get someone to pump out my septic tank, except to pay him some amount that is sufficient to compensate for the displeasure of the job? Fortunately, given your basic income in this scenario, you have more money to do s
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> which isn't nice but this certainly isn't death! It took me literally five seconds of searching to find a study [1] that notes that homeless people in the UK have a death rate that starts at twice that of people with homes an
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Callbacks definitely become much, much less of a problem once you can turn everything into promises.
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Yes, some exercise routines require well over 2000 calories a day, but that's still pedantically missing the point of my comment. If somebody is confused about why they need to burn 3000 calories a day to keep from gaining weight, they
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> If I insure I burn at least 3000 calories a day (usually much more), I can maintain my weight indefinitely. If you're having to burn 3000 calories a day, you're eating too much. That energy has to come from somewhere . Have
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I just wish more of these companies would add support for a locally runnable IFTTT equivalent, or at least something like MQTT support so you can bake your own.
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When it comes to animal anxiety, I always feel bad about very small dogs in public. It seems like 90% of the chihuahas I've ever seen were incredibly nervous around strangers, some to the point of visibly shaking if too close to a crow
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The tl;dr for the long article: The company that owns the Sea-Monkeys trademark, Transcience, contracted with another company, Big Time Toys, to handle the 'fishbowl' kits, marketing, and distribution. Transcience continued to pro
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> How then do we deal with population growth when people don't die of old age? That's not nearly as much of a problem as people think it would be. About 60 million people die per year, and about two-thirds of that comes from ag
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Ugh, another of those weird faux-scrollbar things at the top of the article.
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Yeah - if you allow any kind of motors as a standard part of the ruleset, you've basically got 'lightweight motorcycle racing'. You can get something like this already with trial riding or motocross races, where having a ligh
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> Sure, they will also give you a lot of rubbish and you'll struggle to know what's true and what's made up. If you had any ability to distinguish the truth involved from the bullshit, you wouldn't need to waste tim
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By my thoughts, somebody who's spent more than $1000 or so on bike and gear, maximum, isn't a "casual" cyclist. If they're buying individual parts that cost more than an entire road bike that would be recommended by
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Imagine the logistics of pushing LCARS updates to God-knows-how-many starships and Federation installations.
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Part of my point is that there will literally never be an end that justifies the means with torture, because torture factually does not and will never return any kind of reliable information. Trying to stress the point with weird hypothetic
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I believe torture is morally wrong, but it's easier to point out the practicalities of coercive interrogation (even of a nontorturous kind) producing useless bullshit most of the time. Also, your hypothetical is absurdly biased in favo
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> You may think it's not effective Torture factually isn't effective. https://www.cgu.edu/pdffiles/sbos/costanzo_effects_of_interr...

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